Business secretary Greg Clark says Nissan letter could be published

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The business secretary has today said he would be open to publishing a letter he sent to car manufacturer Nissan.

When asked by the Business Committee if he would share the letter with its members, Greg Clark said he planned to release the letter once certain aspects which currently made it commercially confidential had passed.

"There are aspects that are commercially confidential, but they're not permanently so," Clark said.

Nissan surprised many back in October when it announced it would build two new car models, its Qashqai SUV and the X-Trail SUV, at its plant in Sunderland, securing 7,000 jobs in the process.